Tag Archives: Angela Meleca Gallery

1834    Ohio Penitentiary founded. 1870    The Ohio State University founded. 1878    Columbus Museum of Art founded (as Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts). 1929    Writer Chester Himes enters Ohio Pen. 1930    Ohio Pen fire kills over 300 inmates. 1934    Chester Himes’ short story about the Ohio Pen fire (“To What Red Hell?”) from the perspective of […]

hactenus annorum, comites, elementa meorum et memini et meminisse iuvat: scit cetera mater. That is all I remember, friends, of the training I had when I was young, and I take joy in the memories. My mother knows the rest. These lines are the last of what remains of Statius’ Achilleid, the poem about the […]

It just so happens that I had been teaching Seneca’s Consolation To Helvia immediately before encountering the following text as part of one of Youmna Chlala’s light-box works on display at the new group exhibition Action at a Distance at the Angela Meleca Gallery here in Columbus. Everyone reminds you that exile is a group […]